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The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle, Zahavi, Amotz,Zahavi
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- ISBN
- 9780195100358
- EAN
- 9780195100358
- Book Title
- Handicap Principle : a Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Psychology, Science, Social Science, Philosophy
- Topic
- People with Disabilities, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Interpersonal Relations, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Ever since Darwin, animal behavior has intrigued and perplexed human observers. The elaborate mating rituals, lavish decorative displays, complex songs, calls, dances and many other forms of animal signaling raise fascinating questions. To what degree can animals communicate within their own species and even between species? What evolutionary purpose do such communications serve? Perhaps most importantly, what can animal signaling tell us about our own non-verbal forms of communication? In The Handicap Principle , Amotz and Ashivag Zahavi offer a unifying theory that brilliantly explains many previously baffling aspects of animal signaling and holds up a mirror in which ordinary human behaviors take on surprising new significance. The wide-ranging implications of the Zahavis' new theory make it arguably the most important advance in animal behavior in decades. Based on 20 years of painstaking observation, the Handicap Principle illuminates an astonishing variety of signaling behaviors in animals ranging from ants and ameba to peacocks and gazelles. Essentially, the theory asserts that for animal signals to be effective they must be reliable, and to be reliable they must impose a cost, or handicap, on the signaler. When a gazelle sights a wolf, for instance, and jumps high into the air several times before fleeing, it is signaling, in a reliable way, that it is in tip-top condition, easily able to outrun the wolf. (A human parallel occurs in children's games of tag, where faster children will often taunt their pursuer before running). By momentarily handicapping itself--expending precious time and energy in this display--the gazelle underscores the truthfulness of its signal. Such signaling, the authors suggest, serves the interests of both predator and prey, sparing each the exhaustion of a pointless chase. Similarly, the enormous cost a peacock incurs by carrying its elaborate and weighty tail-feathers, which interfere with food gathering, reliably communicates its value as a mate able to provide for its offspring. Perhaps the book's most important application of the Handicap Principle is to the evolutionary enigma of animal altruism. The authors convincingly demonstrate that when an animal acts altruistically, it handicaps itself--assumes a risk or endures a sacrifice--not primarily to benefit its kin or social group but to increase its own prestige within the group and thus signal its status as a partner or rival. Finally, the Zahavis' show how many forms of non-verbal communication among humans can also be explained by the Handicap Principle. Indeed, the authors suggest that non-verbal signals--tones of voice, facial expressions, body postures--are quite often more reliable indicators of our intentions than is language. Elegantly written, exhaustively researched, and consistently enlivened by equal measures of insight and example, The Handicap Principle illuminates virtually every kind of animal communication. It not only allows us to hear what animals are saying to each other--and to understand why they are saying it--but also to see the enormously important role non-verbal behavior plays in human communication.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195100352
ISBN-13
9780195100358
eBay Product ID (ePID)
258911
Product Key Features
Book Title
Handicap Principle : a Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
People with Disabilities, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Interpersonal Relations, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Psychology, Science, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ely, Na'ama, Ely, Melvin Patrick
Lc Classification Number
Ql751.Z44 1997
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"[An] extremely well-written popularization of the authors' scientificwork. Covering species as different as tigers and barn swallows, and topics asdiverse as parasitism and parental care, the authors apply their theory to manyaspects of animal behavior that were difficult to explain previously.... Highlyrecommended."--Booklist, "This book is highly readable yet rigorous enough for specialists. Essential for any academic collection and worthwhile for genearal collections."--library Journal, "[An] extremely well-written popularization of the authors' scientific work. Covering species as different as tigers and barn swallows, and topics as diverse as parasitism and parental care, the authors apply their theory to many aspects of animal behavior that were difficult to explainpreviously.... Highly recommended."--Booklist, "Among the most revolutionary and controversial concepts in modern behavioral biology is the handicap principle developed by Zahavi. After initially encountering resistance, it has been receiving increased acceptance for its success in explaining an enormous variety of animal behaviors and anatomical structures, from gazelles' seemingly suicidal displays to men's beards. Read this fine book, and discover what the excitement is all about!"--Jared M. Diamond, Professor of Physiology, University of California at Los Angeles, "By now the Handicap Principle is acknowledged by a growing body ofbiologists, and by joining their forces Amotz and Avishang Zahavi explain theprinciple and how it applies to communicative behaviour between organisms...fromamebas to humans."--Arne Lundberg, Uppsala University, Sweden, "Among the most revolutionary and controversial concepts in modern behavioral biology is the handicap principle developed by Zahavi. After initially encountering resistance, it has been receiving increased acceptance for its success in explaining an enormous variety of animal behaviors andanatomical structures, from gazelles' seemingly suicidal displays to men's beards. Read this fine book, and discover what the excitement is all about!"--Jared M. Diamond, Professor of Physiology, University of California at Los Angeles, "By now the Handicap Principle is acknowledged by a growing body of biologists, and by joining their forces Amotz and Avishang Zahavi explain the principle and how it applies to communicative behaviour between organisms...from amebas to humans."--Arne Lundberg, Uppsala University,Sweden, "Among the most revolutionary and controversial concepts in modernbehavioral biology is the handicap principle developed by Zahavi. Afterinitially encountering resistance, it has been receiving increased acceptancefor its success in explaining an enormous variety of animal behaviors andanatomical structures, from gazelles' seemingly suicidal displays to men'sbeards. Read this fine book, and discover what the excitement is allabout!"--Jared M. Diamond, Professor of Physiology, University of California atLos Angeles, "This book is highly readable yet rigorous enough for specialists.Essential for any academic collection and worthwhile for genearalcollections."--library Journal, "This fascinating, provocative, insightful and controversial book will charm, inform and sometimes infuriate all of those interested in understanding animal and human communication."--Paul Ekman, Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Francisco, "This fascinating, provocative, insightful and controversial book willcharm, inform and sometimes infuriate all of those interested in understandinganimal and human communication."--Paul Ekman, Professor of Psychology,University of California, San Francisco
Illustrated by
Balaban, Amir
Copyright Date
1997
Lccn
96-042374
Dewey Decimal
591.59
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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